He also had a button cutting machine in his own shed where he pressed buttons. He lived on the west side of Union Street in Milton.

The button blanks these men created we shipped to the J. Carucci Button Company in New Jersey for finishing. Carucci supplied major fashion houses with pearl buttons for haute couture.

By 1984, there were only 2 companies in the United States that distributed mother-of-pearl buttons.

With the rise of mass production and more efficient technology, Preston Chandler, Sr., a local button cutter who worked well into the 1980s cutting buttons bemoaned, “then a machine was invented that makes as many buttons in one day as a thousand men can make in a year.”